Charity scammers

I never give a cent to those asking for money this way. Especially during Christmas holidays, we'd see some people from this or that charity board a bus or jeep and ask for donations. I just ignore them totally. It's better to give to charities that you'll be sure will reach the intended recipients. I do give some change sometimes when buying MRT tickets. There are times they have reps from Red Cross, I think, stationed there asking for donations. I feel that's more legit than those who you encounter in random places.

We get this all the time here in Mexico. We had a guy come to our church a few weeks ago, he claimed he was american and had his passport stolen and wallet. The church people donated 400.00 to him. A few days later, people say him on the street buying tourist things. Why do people scam us?

You hear strict stories and cases such like this all the time here. They even find ways to cheat via craigslist, social networking sites, etc. You hear about them all the time. So I guess anymore a lot of these people ruin it for everyone else soit is best to be cautious all the time as well.

Dear Porcospino! Thanks for starting an interesting discussion. Yes, nowadays many people collect money in the name of charity and they run away with the money thus collected. Unfortunately many educated people are also seen involved in such inhumane activities. I don't know about your country, but in India every charitable Institute has to register itself with government and it has to obtain permission from Charity commissioner before collecting fund for any cause. Generally the members of Charity Organizations carry a copy of this permission from the charity Commissioner along with them. These Charity Organizations are suppose to get their accounts audited by registered Chartered Accountants and present the same to Charity Commissioner every year and they are also suppose publish such audit statement in the Local News Paper. So we can ask for the permission f the charity Commissioner any time from the person who is coming to collect any fund. In fact every fund collected by the Charity Organizations are to be acknowledged with due receipts, which the volunteers carry with them. Thus carrying donation boxes with out giving any receipts with no permission from Charity Commissioner is nothing but duping the people. Since I stay quite away from the Society on a Stud farm, I don't get such people at my place. Yes, I recall some ladies at Delhi Railway station few years back who used to pin a flag on the shirts of the people and would ask for donation in their donation boxes! I really have no idea if this thing is still continuing there or not as I have not visited the Railway station in the recent past. This type of scamming should be discouraged and if needed we should ask for the permission from these people to collect the donations and we should take help of local police to nab such cheaters. Thanks! It was nice topic of discussion and I enjoyed participating in it!

Porco, same goes for my area here, there are lots and many types of scammers around. Nowadays, we must be careful as not to simply gives donation. I make sure that i give donation to those who really deserved it. I usually make donation to those charity associations and they always issue receipt to me. Doing some charities is good for everyone of us. The only problem is, some people tends to get the chance for own benefit. It is really a pity to have this kind of scammers around who pretended to collect money for charity. Hope you don't feel disappointed when they thought you are also one of them. Have a nice weekend....

I didn't hear about it yet, but because of certain provinces ( maritime's)in Canada it might happen. Well it is not surprising to see that because it is so hard to make a living nowadays, and it is very frustrating to live in a world that doesn't help that doesn't care ( government). Have fun.

yes. in chennai also we get a lot of people like this. I do not normally give such donations to unknown people. i believe in helping people known to us --people working in our house or staying near our house.

Oh yeah, all the time. So, I stopped giving. To anyone. It is not good because some might really be in need. But I can find someone I know needs help and do something.

I hate it when this happens, usually I see such people taking advantage over frauding for a “fund-raiser” but in the latter, they are just using the money for their personal purpose. I also don’t like the fact that some people go over the name of God to sell their stuffs, it’s like they are using such reasons to fool other people. One time, I had this experience where such people go over public transport and start begging displaying their ID’s that they are from some legit fund raising organization but they were really obvious on their scam.